River Road Hunting Club

Looking for information or and details about the club, located in Hamilton, AL. Pm me if need be, Thanks

I know they have some of the best land in that part of the state.

Was told I couldn’t get in, fella told me I was a coon hunter and that wouldn’t fly..
Bc of the other coon hunters I suppose

Truth ..

wish our club keep coon and rabbit hunter out😁 will not be a member next year

location? need another club to coon hunt

If your old and wise then you should know it doesn’t hurt anything...
club is in the $2k range lots of land, flat and some wet.

I wouldn’t want to pay big $ for a deer and/or turkey lease, where ANYONE ran dogs all over it at night, for anything.....but that’s just me.

If I hadn’t seen some things with my own eyes I’d prolly be that way too...

Exceptions ain’t the rule, and pressure is pressure......and turkeys are a helluva lot more sensitive.

I have a guy come coon hunt my place during turkey season every year when I’m there and kill gobbling turkeys the next morning.

Coons do a lot more damage to the turkey population than a coon dog a couple nights a week do. To each their own but I don’t have time to trap so the next best thing is shooting them out over a good coon dog.

Funny how it's always the coon hunters that have the opinion that the coon hunters don't hurt anything.

Yup coon bad. Rabbit hunter not good either

When you’ve lived it you will know it’s not opinion but truth. Now you don’t want the wrong coon hunter but one that doesn’t have trashy dogs or a bunch of teenagers running around un supervised. And no it wasn’t me that was the coon hunter but a neighbor that ran his dogs 3-5 nights a week and we still had lots of deer and big bucks on camera.

I’m not sure you’re comprehending the issue: it’s not ‘damage to the turkey population’, it’s pressure and disturbance on roost....too much, too often, and they move to the roost area without coon dogs running all night. I’d rather have rabbit hunters a day or two a week, as coon dogs a night or two a week. Over 40 years of hunting stuff, I’ve never seen a coon problem (for turkeys) that wasn’t easily handled without a bunch of dogs at night. I’m all for coon hunting....just not during any other hunting season where I’m trying to hunt everything else. My opinion and 40 years of anecdotal experience and land/game work is at least the equal of any coon hunter, rabbit hunter, etc.....it’s your $ and time. It’s my $ and time. Then again, I’ve never seen coon hunting on a deer turkey club, that didn’t disturb hell and half of Georgia, shoot deer at night, turkeys off the roost, and then deny it.....so, I’m probably jaded.

Pressure is pressure. A dozen coin cuffs and a little work and you can wipe out a coin population

Sounds like you’ve had a bad experience.. guess that’s the society we live in one bad ALL BAD

To the op, they kill BIG DEER, Big Turkey, coons, and squirrel. It’s a big nice club to be in.
I know several folks in it.

That’s false. I’m a Turkey Hunter that takes a Coon Hunter during turkey season. He hunts and I just sit at the ranger and take them to different turn out spots. Doesn’t hurt anything.

Thanks for responses guys

I wipe out my coin population every year without any coin traps when I have to pay my lease. Lol

I know trapping is probably better but I’m in the river swamp and I can’t run traps on my off days and keep up with the amount of coins this guy can tree and kill in a few nights. It’s what works for me.

......and you’re just using a single, controlled situation as anecdotal.....so you’re more ‘false’.

You’re more than welcome to believe what you want. Turkeys CAN get used to a lot of stuff. First, they’ll just shift. If wanting/inviting more pressure/disturbance (of any type) on your main target species, makes sense to you, milk that bull......just don’t ask me if I want cream in MY coffee. LOL

The false was not directed at your opinion. It was directed at the comment that it’s Only coon hunters that think coon hunting doesn’t hurt. I have already agreed to disagree on your opinion. Lol

The coon hunting hasn’t effected us deer hunters at river road. Over 30 mature bucks killed this season. To the op, we don’t only kill good deer, turkey, coons, and squirrels we also kill wild hogs as well.

Dont mean to hijack a thread.. I have read and really dont have an opinion about hunting coons as it relates to putting too much pressure on roosting birds. I do know i need to get rid of some coons we have WAY to many on our place.

Wildboar i was reading your post and was just wondering how much land do yall have at River Road. 30 mature bucks is amazing, you guys must have a enormous amount of acreage

A LOT OF LAND

I know some guys down that way.. didn’t want to mention pigs...

Ole mossy we have around 15,000 acres. Ridgelife it could be a good thing and it could be a bad thing knowing some folks from Lamar County. Lol

How much does this club run it sounds great.

And do you have any openings😀

Dues are $2000 and I’ll check on availability. I know there’s a few already wanting to join. I’ll find out an PM y’all when I find out if you’d like.

I’d be interested also. Please pm me thanks

I made the drive several times from Northeast Ga to hunt that club. I liked it about as good as my Ky farm ! There was a huge 6 pointer running around there a couple of years ago

Damn that’s a ways from me but would definitely consider it.

If a coon Hunter wants to join your club tell him sure, but we got a couple of long time members that are trappers. End of discussion.

It’s all good down that way. Good people that know. Way I come up anyhow.

Is this club closer to Sulligent than Hamilton? If so, is it the club where you have your own private section that’s yours to hunt? I know a family that hunts in it and loves it. I’ve got a place in Sulligent already or I’d be interested.

Bugman you are correct buddy!! Where at in sulligent do you hunt?

PM to you

Wildboar14 how many acres does each member get to hunt for their section?

Plenty of pigs over that way, we got a little land in our club over there, didn’t know they had that many acres though. Good hunting over that way

.....and now that we’ve gotten details on land size, then it shows why it’s not an issue. If you had a thousand acres vs 15k, your use impacts are TOTALLY different, by type and volume. With that much to work with, you can certainly manage for most all use. I still wouldn’t want to draw the 200-500ac that had been coon hunted the night before, vs an area that hadn’t.....if I’m a member there to deer and turkey hunt....but others may be okay with it. It sounds like a heckuva property. I can’t know the numbers and setup, but it has the capacity to deal with stuff smaller tracts don’t.

You can definitely tell the ones on this site that didnt grow up around a pack of hounds. I've dog hunted, hung on the side of a tree and turkey hunted all my life. A hound will not ruin a piece of property no matter the size. If they run a deer it will come back just like a deer if it sees or smells you same as a turkey if it sees you no not within a few minutes but with in hrs everything will go back to normal. I guess y'all think coyotes and bobcats dont bother deer or turkeys nor do coons, fox or oposums bother turkey nest. Ppl need to use some dang common sense on this page and stop bashing on someones way of hunting or what clubs allow on land they lease.

LOL..so have a lot of us ( deer, turkey, dogs, etc....’all our lives’) ....if you think deer and turkeys act the same, regardless of pressure/activity, I don’t know what to tell you. Point was never that it couldn’t be done, but that it is not the same as without it. I’ve been in plenty of dog clubs over the years, where they’ve run deer, rabbits, and coons. It’s different, period....whether that’s good or bad is dependent on size/amount and personal opinion.

Not sure how it affects turkeys, but deer definately get more nocturnal when they are run with dogs

does anyone remember reading that study they did on collared dear and coon hunters? Pretty good read.

I think alot of folks have a miss conception about the affects of dog hunting. I'm not directing this at anyone, but i hear people all the time try to qualify a statement with "I've dog hunted before". I hunt with dog hunters all the time, and some of them aint got walking around sense, they sure aint an expert on dogs or hunting. Just because someone is a hunter, doesn't mean there a great woodsman. I'm not arguing one way or the other, But I've seen with my own eyes, definitive statements, debunked.

I seen something last year that had me scratching my head. We were hog hunting and the dogs had bayed. The 2 pastures were divided and we was at the gate. At that time the second pasture was being used as a hay field so we had to park at the gate. The perimeter of both was surrounded by a 4 strand barbwire fence. To get to the bay, we would have to keep going about a hundred yards, turn left, cross fence, and maybe go 100 yards into the woods. While we was waiting for the bull dog to get there. We see a deer running through the hayfield on our right, going to our left. It got all the way to the fence (right were we would go through the fence) and stopped. Now I don't know how many of you have heard 7-8 dogs bay a pig before, but its loud. We was twice as far away from the bay as the deer was and we could hear it good. The deer stands there for about 10 seconds, and I'm waiting for him to turn around and bolt any second. I'll be damned if it didn't jump the fence and head right towards the bay. Kinda blew my mind, keep in mind that this land is directly in between 2 big dog hunting clubs, so the deer know what deer dogs are. Never in a million years would i have thought that deer would have done it, but I seen it with my own eyes.

Goodman you wasting your time.

I am with you, goodman. Watched a big doe come through a two year old cutover, way ahead of the dogs. She made a deliberate path and even trotted 100yds through a small branch. She made a huge loop through the woods, with dogs still a ways behind her to come back the same way she had before. This time, she stopped dead in her tracks, leaped 10 ft. to the side of the trail that she ran before, walked about 20 more yds away from the trail, and watched the dogs run by.

Im with him too. Dog hunted my whole life. Heck what if dog hunters wanted it illegal to stand hunt

I had a plot full of deer one afternoon and two damn hounds came running through, deer gone, hunt ruined.

LOL....adapting to dogs is altered behavior from not having to adapt to dogs. I was a member of a big dog club for years. Stand hunted it entirely different than my non-dog hunting properties....because the deer acted different. Turkeys did, too.....because they ran dogs for training, rabbits, and coons, right up until the season. It’s impossible for there not to be an impact. Good/bad, how much, will vary, and nobody is talking about ‘banning’ anything......if you’ve got a lot of land, and manage use, then it might be a minor thing.....which is what the club here sounds like. ...but it’s still there.

I’m not and never have been a coon hunter

But I allow coon hunters

I’ve ran my rabbit dogs on my lease for 15 years.

Coyote hound hunters have permission also outside of deer and Turkey season.

Never seem to bother anything. Our taxidermist would agree.